"The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film) The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1965 American drama film starring James Stewart, produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, and based on the 1964 novel ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" by Elleston Trevor. The story describes a small group of men struggling to survive their aircraft's emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, and stars Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger and Ernest Borgnine. The ensemble cast includes Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea and George Kennedy as other passengers on the aircraft. Though the film was a failure at the"
"The book was the basis of a 1965 film starring James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, and Hardy Krüger. The 2004 remake featuring Dennis Quaid was also based on the novel, although it was re-located to the Gobi Desert in Asia. The Flight of the Phoenix The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves. The book was the basis for the 1965 film ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" starring James Stewart and the 2004 remake"
"The Flight of the Phoenix The Flight of the Phoenix is a 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor. The plot involves the crash of a transport aircraft in the middle of a desert and the survivors' desperate attempt to save themselves. The book was the basis for the 1965 film ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" starring James Stewart and the 2004 remake entitled ""Flight of the Phoenix"". ""The Flight of the Phoenix"" came at the midpoint of Trevor's career and led to a bidding war over its film rights. Pilot Frank Towns and navigator Lew Moran are ferrying a mixed bag"
"The bodies of 8 of the crew were found in 1960. While returning from a World War II bombing mission, a United States Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber sustains damage from action with German fighters. Without any order to abandon the aircraft, the navigator, Lieutenant Hamner, panics and bails out. The aircraft, now lost due to having no navigator, and the remaining crew overfly their base and continue on for another 300 miles before eventually crash landing in the Libyan desert. The five remaining crewmen, believing they are still over water, bail out and survive their parachute landings, although"
"Airport 1975 Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film ""Airport"". ""Airport 1975"" is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye and Jennings Lang and has a screenplay by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black and George Kennedy, as well as Gloria Swanson in her final screen appearance. The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit causing the fatalities of senior crew and the blinding of the pilot with no"
"The Purple Plain The Purple Plain, also known as Llanura Roja, is a 1954 British war film, directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in the Burma Campaign in the closing months of the World War II, who is battling with depression after having lost his wife. It was nominated for two BAFTA awards. Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck), a RCAF pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, flying de Havilland Mosquitos, a two-seat fighter-bomber. Forrester is emotionally distraught after losing his new wife in the"
"Crash Landing (2005 film) Crash Landing is a 2005 American-Canadian action film directed by Jim Wynorski. It was released direct-to-DVD in the U.S. on July 11, 2006. After crash landing his previous military flight and barely escaping with his life, Major John Masters (Antonio Sabàto Jr.) is given a seemingly easy mission to ease him back into flying. He is tasked with flying a billionaires daughter and her friends on a private plane to her graduation party. Unknown to Masters, the flight crew have all been murdered and replaced with members of a terrorist group intent on hijacking the flight"
"a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer-Female. Airport 1975 Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film ""Airport"". ""Airport 1975"" is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye and Jennings Lang and has a screenplay by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black and George Kennedy, as well as Gloria Swanson in her final screen appearance. The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit causing the fatalities of senior crew"
"his partner, comparing it and their current case. Fate Is the Hunter (film) Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 American black-and-white aviation disaster film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Aaron Rosenberg, directed by Ralph Nelson, that stars Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, and Rod Taylor. ""Fate Is the Hunter"" also features Jane Russell (playing herself entertaining for the USO in a flashback sequence), Nehemiah Persoff, Wally Cox, and Mark Stevens. Dorothy Malone also makes an uncredited appearance. The film features an early film score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. The film's storyline concerns the crash of a passenger airliner that"
"Sahara (2005 film) Sahara is a 2005 action-comedy adventure film directed by Breck Eisner that is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Clive Cussler. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Steve Zahn and Penélope Cruz and is an international co-production between the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany and the United States. ""Sahara"" was a box office bomb earning just $119 million worldwide, against a budget of $160 million. In 1865, the ironclad CSS ""Texas"" carried the last of the Confederacy's treasury out of Richmond, Virginia, as Captain Mason Tombs ran a Union blockade. In present day Mali, a civil"
"Tuskegee Airmen, the history of the Red Tail Mustangs they flew (one of which is the subject of the restoration efforts) and the story of the late Don Hinz who crashed the first restored Mustang in 2004. The film sheds light on the bravery and heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen in their service as bomber escorts for the Allied Forces in the European Theatre of World War II. It documents that the Tuskegee Airmen were the country's first African American military aviators taking flight in World War II, despite contemporary stereotyping of African American men as lacking the essential intellectual"
"open sea. To make matters easier, Tombs brings the prisoner onto the deck, and the Union soldiers stop firing and salute. Then in 1931 Kitty Mannock is flying over the Sahara in quest of a new aviation record. A sand storm fouls her carburetors and her plane crash lands in the desert. While her landing is on level ground, the plane reaches the edge of a ravine and tips over. Even though a search is launched she is not found. Then in 1996 a convoy of tourists are crossing the Sahara on a fleet of Land Rovers when they reach"
"award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Blore. The Purple Plain The Purple Plain, also known as Llanura Roja, is a 1954 British war film, directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in the Burma Campaign in the closing months of the World War II, who is battling with depression after having lost his wife. It was nominated for two BAFTA awards. Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck), a RCAF pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in Burma, flying de Havilland Mosquitos, a"
"Both pilots also ate the chicken. A man who has not flown since the Vietnam War (single-engine planes in the book, helicopter/war choppers in the film) is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes a very neurotic, but survivable landing. Terror in the Sky Terror in the Sky is a low budget 1971 television film remake of 1957's ""Zero Hour!"", which itself was based on the 1956 television play ""Flight into Danger"". Arthur Hailey recycled the premise in his book ""Runway Zero-Eight"" which was co-written with John Castle in 1958. The film stars Doug McClure, Lois Nettleton, Roddy"
"was released on DVD in 2003, however only three of the original actors (Thomas Haden Church, John Cleese, and Keith Scott) returned for the sequel. In an animated sequence, a plane flying through the fictional Bukuvu region in the heart of East Africa crashes. A child on board the plane, George, disappears into the jungle and is raised by a sapient, talking gorilla named Ape. Twenty-five years later, George, who enjoys swinging on vines to move about but has a habit of crashing into trees, has grown to be King of the Jungle. Ursula Stanhope, a San Francisco heiress, tours"
"Back from Eternity Back from Eternity is a 1956 American drama film about a planeload of people stranded in the South American jungle and subsequently menaced by headhunters. It is a remake of an earlier 1939 film, ""Five Came Back"", starred Chester Morris, and Lucille Ball, also directed and produced by John Farrow. Richard Carroll, who is credited with writing the story for ""Back from Eternity"", wrote the original story for ""Five Came Back"". Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Anita Ekberg, and Gene Barry star in the later remake. A passenger airliner piloted by Bill Lonagan (Robert Ryan) and Joe Brooks"
"Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (also known as Freefall: Flight 174) is a 1995 made-for-television film based on the real-life events of Air Canada Flight 143, nicknamed the ""Gimli Glider"", starring William Devane, Scott Hylands, Shelley Hack and Mariette Hartley. Set in 1983, the film follows the crew, their families and the passengers of the flight, from the preparations for departure to the emergency landing on an abandoned airfield in Manitoba, and everything in between. Two airline pilots experience a sudden loss of power in the two engines of their airliner due to"
"2005, and at the time the fourth highest grossing South Korean film of all time (as of January 2015 it ranked as twentieth). In September 1950, during the Korean War, a U.S. Navy pilot named Neil Smith (Steve Taschler) is caught in a mysterious storm of butterflies and crash-lands his plane in a remote and mountainous part of Korea. He is found by villagers from the nearby mountain village of Dongmakgol, who nurse him back to health. Dongmakgol is cut off from the outside world – its inhabitants have no knowledge of modern technology and are blissfully unaware of the"
"Sahara (1995 film) Sahara (also known as Desert Storm) is a 1995 American/Australian made-for-television action war film shot in Australia and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. Starring James Belushi, Alan David Lee and Simon Westaway, ""Sahara"" is a remake of the 1943 film of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart. In June 1942, on the eve of the Battle of El Alamein, American Sergeant Joe Gunn (James Belushi) and the crew of his M3 Lee tank ""Lulu Belle"" are the sole survivors of their unit. Boxed in by the enemy, they have no choice but to head south. They come across"
"film ""Moontrap"". The 1998 film ""Armageddon"" portrays a combined crew of offshore oil rig workers and U.S. military staff who pilot two modified Shuttles to avert the destruction of Earth by an asteroid. Retired American test pilots visit a Russian satellite in the 2000 Clint Eastwood adventure film ""Space Cowboys"". In the 2003 film ""The Core"", the ""Endeavour""s landing is disrupted by the Earth's magnetic core, and its crew is selected to pilot a vehicle designed to restart the core. The 2004 Bollywood movie ""Swades"", where a Space Shuttle is used to launch a special rainfall monitoring satellite, was filmed"
"Sands of the Kalahari Sands of the Kalahari is a 1965 British adventure film starring Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York, Harry Andrews and Theodore Bikel, based on the 1960 novel ""The Sands of Kalahari"" by William Mulvihill. The screenplay was written by Cy Endfield and William Mulvihill and directed by Cy Endfield. It was filmed in South-West Africa (now Namibia) and Spain and released by Paramount Pictures. A disparate and desperate group of plane crash survivors are thrust into a desolate mountainous desert region somewhere within present-day Namibia. Brian O'Brien - played by Stuart Whitman - is a big"
"other Eastern Airlines aircraft. The crash was also documented in Rob and Sarah Elder's 1977 book ""Crash"". Two made-for-television movies based on the crash were aired in 1978: ""Crash"", aired in October, was based on the Elders' book, and dramatized the crash, rescue efforts, and NTSB investigation; ""The Ghost of Flight 401,"" aired earlier in February, was based on Fuller's book and focused more on the ghost sightings surrounding the aftermath. The crash was featured in Season 5 of the Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic TV series ""Mayday"", in a 2009 Season 5 episode called ""Fatal Distraction"". Musician Bob"
"Fate Is the Hunter (film) Fate Is the Hunter is a 1964 American black-and-white aviation disaster film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Aaron Rosenberg, directed by Ralph Nelson, that stars Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, and Rod Taylor. ""Fate Is the Hunter"" also features Jane Russell (playing herself entertaining for the USO in a flashback sequence), Nehemiah Persoff, Wally Cox, and Mark Stevens. Dorothy Malone also makes an uncredited appearance. The film features an early film score by composer Jerry Goldsmith. The film's storyline concerns the crash of a passenger airliner that killed all its passengers, with only one of"
"Flight of the Red Tail Flight of the Red Tail is a 2009 historical documentary film by Adam White about the Red Tail Project's successful return to flight of a World War II P-51 Mustang. The plane had been originally flown by the United States Air Force 332d Fighter Group as a bomber escort for the Allied Forces in the European Theatre of World War II and serves as a travelling and flying tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen. It had become inoperable during a 2004 crash after having been restored for exhibition flying once before in 2001. The Red Tail"
"Air Mail (film) Air Mail is a 1932 American pre-Code adventure film directed by John Ford, based on a story by Dale Van Every and Frank ""Spig"" Wead. The film stars Ralph Bellamy, Pat O'Brien and Gloria Stuart. A copy is preserved in the Library of Congress. Pilot Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy) owns and operates Desert Airport, an air mail base at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. He leads a group of young pilots who risk their lives flying through dangerous weather and over treacherous terrain to deliver air mail. When Joe Barnes (Ward Bond) crashes at the base,"
"been officially released on home video on any format. The Concorde ... Airport '79 The Concorde ... Airport '79 is a 1979 American air disaster film (in the UK, it was released a year later as Airport '80: The Concorde) and the fourth and final installment of the ""Airport"" franchise. Poorly reviewed by critics, the film also flopped at the box office. Produced on a then high budget of $14 million, it earned a little over $13 million, thus ending the enormous financial success of the ""Airport"" films. The film was directed by David Lowell Rich. The ensemble cast includes"
"6 AT-6 escort. Flight of the Red Tail Flight of the Red Tail is a 2009 historical documentary film by Adam White about the Red Tail Project's successful return to flight of a World War II P-51 Mustang. The plane had been originally flown by the United States Air Force 332d Fighter Group as a bomber escort for the Allied Forces in the European Theatre of World War II and serves as a travelling and flying tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen. It had become inoperable during a 2004 crash after having been restored for exhibition flying once before in 2001."
"and ""The Doomsday Flight"" (1966), written by Rod Serling and starring Edmond O'Brien as a disgruntled aerospace engineer who plants a barometric pressure bomb on an airliner built by his former employer set to explode when the airliner descends for landing. The golden age of the disaster film began in 1970 with the release of ""Airport"". A huge financial success earning more than $100 million - 590 million in 2017 adjusted dollars, at the box office, the film was directed by George Seaton and starred Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jacqueline Bisset and Helen Hayes. While not exclusively focused"
"the most critically acclaimed television pilots of all time. Both parts earned high ratings, with Part 1 breaking the record for a pilot episode with 18.6 million viewers, and the episode would later win many awards and accolades. On September 22, 2004, Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) awakens disoriented in the jungle and notices a yellow Labrador retriever (Madison) darting through the bamboo forest. Following the path it came from, Jack runs haphazardly through the jungle to a beach, where he is confronted by the carnage of the airplane crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Jack, a surgeon, administers medical aid to"
"of the final moments of the SS ""Andrea Doria"" in 1956. The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film) The Poseidon Adventure is a 2005 disaster made-for-TV film based on Paul Gallico's novel of the same name. It is a loose remake to the 1972 film of the same name and its 1979 sequel. The plot centers on the SS ""Poseidon"", a 135,000-ton state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town, South Africa to Sydney, Australia as well as the stories and dramas of some of the 3,700 passengers and crew. Passenger and father, Richard Clarke, is having an affair with"
"The Flight That Fought Back The Flight That Fought Back is a docudrama film produced by the London-based company Brook Lapping Productions for the Discovery Channel, about United Airlines Flight 93. The program debuted in the United States on September 11, 2005, marking the fourth anniversary of the event on which it is based. The dramatic film, narrated by Kiefer Sutherland and a cast of actors playing hijackers, passengers and crew, reconstructs the events that led to Flight 93's crash in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, approximately northwest of Washington, D.C., during the September 11 attacks in 2001. It proved to be"
"members to purchase on 8mm and videotape. Airport '77 Airport '77 is a 1977 American air disaster film and the third installment of the ""Airport"" franchise. The film stars a number of veteran actors including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, and Brenda Vaccaro as well as the return of George Kennedy from the two previous ""Airport"" films. It is directed by Jerry Jameson, produced by Jennings Lang and William Frye with a screenplay by Michael Scheff and David Spector. The plot concerns a private Boeing 747 packed with VIPs and priceless art that is hijacked before"
"Nando Parrado Fernando ""Nando"" Seler Parrado Dolgay (born 9 December 1949) is one of the sixteen Uruguayan survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa, climbed through the Andes mountains over a 10-day period to find help. His efforts, supported in various ways by the entire group, have been recognized through books and other media. He was portrayed by Ethan Hawke in the 1993 feature film ""Alive: Miracle in The Andes"". Parrado was"